[NetBehaviour] Quick thought about Neural Networks

[ruth catlow]

Here's a link to the exhibition page about BOB 
<http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/ian-cheng-bob>

and on the theme of beautiful introductions to technical things - this 
by Taeyoon Choi for Avant is the best introduction to Zero and One 
<http://avant.org/project/zero-one/> ive read: technical, poetic, political.

wow!

:)
R


On 25/03/18 16:16, ruth catlow wrote:
> Always very appreciative of ABC explainers of mystifying tech trends - 
> so bravo!!!! and thank you.
>
> Currently Ian Cheng's BOB is on display at the Serpentine, about which 
> I have mixed feelings.
> It is very very clever and technically accomplished.
>
> It also presents a view of "life" as something to be best studied and 
> understood in a petri dish. The degree to which this is a comment on 
> the sterility (or threadbare engagement with sociality) of AI 
> development cultures at this time, is not clear to me. Perhaps we will 
> know the answer to this question in the upcoming phase two of Cheng's 
> exhibition called The Emissaries.
>
> One of the difficulties in parsing BOB as an artwork arises from the 
> fact that (like a lot of products of digital culture) it is a 
> black-box, or perhaps a better analogy would be an iceberg. We know 
> that there is a huge and complex machine under the surface but we have 
> no idea, and no way to gain understanding of what is going on. It's 
> body is unlike ours, so it doesn't feel like we do. We can't learn 
> together with it. All we can do is project our own idea of what an 
> evolving system looks like onto its surface. And I think BOB is doing 
> very clever pattern mirroring.
>
> So for me - with a creative Neural Net artwork I want to know about 
> the "body" of the artwork and to be able to observe the glorious gap 
> between what I might project onto it and what is actually going on.
>
> cheers
> Ruth
>
> On 25/03/18 05:20, BishopZ via NetBehaviour wrote:
>> Been building some Neural Networks.
>>
>>
>> There are two ways you can build them...
>> Analytical or Creative.
>>
>>
>> An Analytical NN takes a lot of data
>> and boils it down to an answer.
>> This is what the business world is so on about.
>> It's a replacment for anything that was formerly
>> random decisions, like which banner ad to display.
>>
>> You can also make a Creative NN,
>> which taks a small amount of data
>> and makes up a whole bunch.
>>
>> Examples of Creative NNs:
>>
>> 1. You press a button, and the NN creates an image. You tell it 
>> whether you liked the image or not.
>>
>> 2. You select 1 of 4 colors, the NN writes a poem for you. You tell 
>> it whether you liked the poem or not.
>>
>> Techniques for Creative NNs:
>>
>> (1) NN's only do what you train them to do. If you include the 
>> previous answer as part of the input data, then you can train it to 
>> not give the same answer twice.
>>
>> (2) The higher you set the learning rate, the more "in the moment" it 
>> becomes.
>>
>>
>> Dear Netbehaviour,
>>
>> Any ideas, thoughts, comments? Is there room for creative NN 
>> artworks? Seems like this kind of thing could take over the 
>> interactive installation space. Maybe art-tech can become surprising 
>> again?
>>
>> If they make manipulation machines that drag on your worst fears, 
>> maybe we can make happiness bots that make you fearless?
>>
>> Any ideas, thoughts, comments? What if we made the entire museum into 
>> a rube goldberg of intelligent automation? Anything else we could do?
>>
>> Skynet's the limit.
>>
>> Bz
>>
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